ABSTRACT

In March 2020, when the possibility of COVID-19 coming into our midst was not just something that was happening in other countries but a reality, it created a lot of anxiety in all of us. Here, I write about how this time – of the pandemic – of limited movement and space resonated differently with different people – a liberating experience, a suffocating and death-like space, a no space, a known space, an abusive space, a bursting space – and how in many ways it forced us to move, to enter the caesura of these difficult experiences which otherwise would have continued to trouble, suffocate but not led to any consistent working through.